FYI, the "shiat", "biatch" and "fark" you see people using are likely a result of Fark's profanity filter (with obvious meanings). Likewise, anything containing "first post" is filtered to "boobies" and timestamped a few hours into the future.
Note: the filter ignores context and spacing, leading to some unintentionally mangled posts.
...Heck, they reckon that the "VIA Nanobook" and "Easynote XS" are rebrandings of the "Cloudbook", without the vaguest notion of the real relationship between the machines. Just FYI, both the Easynote and Cloudbook are based off the Via Nanobook design.
...and each screen is filled with so many blinking shiney flashing ads it takes forever for each page to load... Your Firefox needs a dose of NoScript http://noscript.net/
I have noticed that, however, it still takes forever to load. Mind you, I've got a "Sawtooth" 500MHz PowerMac G4 (running Tiger), and it might not be as bad on a modern machine.
That's because no-one's really put much time/effort into making "Idiot-Capable(TM)" programming systems. Stuff like Automator in OSX is a step in the right direction. It's not some archaic language that require semicolons and parenthesises (or whitespace) everywhere; it's a nice little GUI, and you drag+drop stuff around to make a working script. Is your grandma going to be using it to solve cancer? No, but it's much better along than "10 PRINT 'Hello World!'", and one could easily start using it without much instruction.
One of these days, I even plan to start reselling ADSL with a transparent proxy configured my own special way, so other people can also enjoy the same advertisement-free Internet experience (and I can make a few quid as a secondary consideration). Sure, as long as you don't call it the Internet. What makes the Internet so special is that the providers (the good ones, anyway) censor/filter NOTHING, and the filtering is left up to the end-user. IMHO, the second you begin denying your customers specific content/services (be it ads or BitTorrent), I no longer consider you a proper ISP, and neither should the law.
And besides, if you can filter all those ads, we don't think you would have a problem filtering out child porn either, right?
Technically, my first "MP3 player" wasn't actually a MP3 player. I had gotten a Sony (ducks) MZ-R500 MiniDisc (ducks again) player for my birthday in 8th grade, right around when Apple introduced their "lame" iPod. I loved it. It ran off a single AA for over a day (continuous, before I realized what the "hold" switch was for), held at least a full CD of music, and was more pocketable than most other options at the time. And rubbing the whole "$3 a disc for another 80 minutes of music" in my Rio-owning friend's face? Priceless*. Sure, it was a pain to record and tag the music by hand, but the fact that I could hold so much made up for it.
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And it looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue
FYI, the "shiat", "biatch" and "fark" you see people using are likely a result of Fark's profanity filter (with obvious meanings). Likewise, anything containing "first post" is filtered to "boobies" and timestamped a few hours into the future.
Note: the filter ignores context and spacing, leading to some unintentionally mangled posts.
http://google.com/mars
What, and reverse the years of progress we've made on fast boot times? Now noone will ever want their computers to finish starting!
The moment a big gov't contractor (or the gov't itself) gets burned by a patent troll, we have a chance of change.
Learn to spell and I might actually consider your point
On the topic of Evolution, does it have IMAP-IDLE push support yet? If it does, I'm moving to Hardy this instant, regardless of driver breakage
I hear viper-mode's coming along nicely. Haven't checked recently since I don't dual-boot much.
...Heck, they reckon that the "VIA Nanobook" and "Easynote XS" are rebrandings of the "Cloudbook", without the vaguest notion of the real relationship between the machines. Just FYI, both the Easynote and Cloudbook are based off the Via Nanobook design.
...and each screen is filled with so many blinking shiney flashing ads it takes forever for each page to load... Your Firefox needs a dose of NoScript http://noscript.net/THIS
IS
DOUBLECLICK!!!
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Install the "Nightly Tester Tools" extension. Lets you override compatibility checks on extensions
I'm not a fan of the XP icons, and the jury's still out on the OSX theme, but I love the new Linux theme.
Mostly because it adopts my GTK+ theme and icons, and mostly blends in with everything else on my system (though IMHO Addons should be under Edit).
I have noticed that, however, it still takes forever to load. Mind you, I've got a "Sawtooth" 500MHz PowerMac G4 (running Tiger), and it might not be as bad on a modern machine.
That's because no-one's really put much time/effort into making "Idiot-Capable(TM)" programming systems. Stuff like Automator in OSX is a step in the right direction. It's not some archaic language that require semicolons and parenthesises (or whitespace) everywhere; it's a nice little GUI, and you drag+drop stuff around to make a working script. Is your grandma going to be using it to solve cancer? No, but it's much better along than "10 PRINT 'Hello World!'", and one could easily start using it without much instruction.
(Full disclosure: Ubuntu junkie)
And besides, if you can filter all those ads, we don't think you would have a problem filtering out child porn either, right?
Technically, my first "MP3 player" wasn't actually a MP3 player. I had gotten a Sony (ducks) MZ-R500 MiniDisc (ducks again) player for my birthday in 8th grade, right around when Apple introduced their "lame" iPod. I loved it. It ran off a single AA for over a day (continuous, before I realized what the "hold" switch was for), held at least a full CD of music, and was more pocketable than most other options at the time. And rubbing the whole "$3 a disc for another 80 minutes of music" in my Rio-owning friend's face? Priceless*. Sure, it was a pain to record and tag the music by hand, but the fact that I could hold so much made up for it.
*Well, until he bought the next-up MD player
See my .sig. Should help.
If you read TFS, you would know that Rio was second to market. They just happened to be the first popular one.
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Probably the first general-purpose one, but I know there were several GBA games that had a tilt sensor built into the cartridge
You mean like the unfinished toys RIM puts out with EDGE only*?
*Yes, I know the CDMA Blackberrys are EV-DO
As opposed to the porn apps showing up on their data bill?
Have you seen the Android demos? They already have Quake, running rather well.
Memory stick: generic term for portable flash media, usually USB drives
Memory Stick: name for Sony's flash media format
The capitalization is important